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How big your brave is

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What We Think:

Singer and songwriter Sara Bareilles’ song “Brave” is the self-love anthem we need in a culture where self-love sits on the back burner while many of us try to assimilate, homogenize, and “normalize.” Co-written with Jack Antonoff of the band Fun. and inspired by a friend struggling with coming out of the closet, Sara Bareilles gives voice to the voiceless and song to the songless. Set to pumping “dance-to-it-in-your-room” music, the lyrics of her song are simple but so very powerful. Her repeated “say what you want to say” rings with hope for a society of love and compassion for all races, religions, body types, and gender and sexual identities. The music video is so genuine and fun and watching it brings a smile and a sense of get-up-and-dance empowerment to see “how big your brave is.” The world needs more positive songs like this. Applause for Sara Bareilles for helping us believe in ourselves a little more. – Uzma Amin

Check out the lyrics to the song below!

You can be amazing
You can turn a phrase into a weapon or a drug
You can be the outcast
Or be the backlash of somebody’s lack of love
Or you can start speaking up
Nothing’s gonna hurt you the way that words do
When they settle ‘neath your skin
Kept on the inside and no sunlight
Sometimes a shadow wins
But I wonder what would happen if you

Chorus:

Say what you wanna say
And let the words fall out
Honestly I wanna see you be brave
With what you want to say
And let the words fall out
Honestly I wanna see you be brave

Refrain: (x2)

I just wanna see you
I just wanna see you
I just wanna see you
I wanna see you be brave

Everybody’s been there,
Everybody’s been stared down by the enemy
Fallen for the fear
And done some disappearing,
Bow down to the mighty
Don’t run, just stop holding your tongue
Maybe there’s a way out of the cage where you live
Maybe one of these days you can let the light in
Show me how big your brave is

Chorus

And since your history of silence
Won’t do you any good,
Did you think it would?
Let your words be anything but empty
Why don’t you tell them the truth?

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